Clothes pin or clamp



(No Model.)

L. B. REEDS. CLOTHES PIN 0R CLAMP.

No. 605,207. Patented June 7, 1898.

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LUCIAN B. REEDS, OF FULTON, KENTUCKY.

CLOTHES PIN'OR CLAMP...

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,207, dated June 7, 1898.

I Application filed February 8, 1897. 1i 11l 1 (N0 mildew To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUOIAN B. REEDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fulton, in the county of Fulton and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Pins or Clamps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in clothes-pins; and it consists in a pin formed of a spiral or coiled wire having two or more coils as distinguished from a pin having a singlecoil. ing the coils are free and formed into loops, so. that the free ends may be pressed outward and the clothes and line clamped between the same and the adjacent coil.

' The particular class of clothes-pins to which this invention relates is that wherein the pin itself is strung on the wire'or other form of clothes-line and remains thereon.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved pin. Fig. 2 is an edge view.

A designates the pin, which is formed of a series'of coils B O D, lying close together and constructed of wire. The free ends of the wire are formed with'loops or eyes E and are carried back along the coil, their looped ends being located conveniently on opposite sides of the coil and opposite each other. The pin is in the first instance threaded on the wire, it being so placed by twisting the ring or pin in a manner similar to that of the ordinary key-ring until the wire is within the coils.

The opposite ends of the wire form-' When the goods are to be attached to the clothes-line, it is only necessary to spread. the free end on one side outward from the coil and then adjust the coil so that the goods which have been passed around the clothesline will come between the free end and the coil. In this position the goods and wire are tightly clamped. The opposite side of the pin may be used in a similar manner. It will be noticed that the free ends may be moved in either direction laterally and that when so moved it is equally impossible for the pin to escape from the line, as the central coil at all times forms a complete ring surrounding the line.

Heretofore pins of this nature have been made with a single coil, and when the free ends have been bent in a direction to straighten the coil a pin could be easily pulled from the line. This objection I have wholly overcome.

- What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A metal clothes-pin consisting of a single piece of wire bent into two complete coils each lying in proximity to the other, the free ends of the wire being curved back to points opposite each other and within the plane of the sides of the coils and having their extreme ends formed with loops or eyes lying close to the coils, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUCIAN B. REEDS.

Witnesses:

H. M. KEABBY, J. W. TILLMAN. 

